• Al Jazeera English – Business – BP hit with record safety fine

  “British Petroleum, one of the world’s largest energy companies, has been hit with a record fine of $87m for safety violations at a Texas refinery.

  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) handed down the fine on Friday, saying the company had failed to correct safety shortfalls at its Texas City refinery after a blast there in 2005 killed 15 workers and injured 170 others.”

  tags: bp, british petroleum, osha, texas refinery, greenmonktv

• India swamped by 420,000 tonnes of e-waste: lobby group

  “India faces a mounting challenge to dispose of an estimated 420,000 tonnes of electronic waste a year that it generates domestically and imports from abroad, a green lobby group said Tuesday. “

  tags: india, ewaste, toxic link, electronic waste, greenmonktv

• Google, IBM and Microsoft with their heads in the clouds | Greenpeace International

  “People could some day recall that it was the Information Technology (IT) industry’s advocacy for strong action which tipped the balance at the Copenhagen climate summit. But that’s not going to happen unless all of us press them to become climate champions. As our updated Cool IT Challenge leaderboard reveals, IT heavyweights such as Google, Microsoft and IBM are still hesitating to speak up on the urgent need for emissions reductions. “

  tags: copenhagen summit, cool it challenge, greenpeace, greenmonktv, climate change

• Hen harrier ‘near extinction in England’ – Times Online

  “The hen harrier, one of the country’s rarest birds of prey, could be in danger of disappearing from England, a study has found.

  Only six pairs bred successfully this year, a figure described as “critically low”. This has made the hawks especially vulnerable to hunters and natural events.”

  tags: hen harrier, critically endangered, greenmonktv

• Hundreds evacuated as floods hit Scotland and Wales | UK news | guardian.co.uk

  “Hundreds of people were rescued from homes and vehicles after heavy rain and strong winds brought severe flooding to parts Scotland and Wales yesterday.

  Around 100 people, many of them elderly, were rescued from flooded properties in Huntley, Aberdeenshire.

  The Grampian fire and rescue service was continuing to search homes in the town today in an attempt to ensure nobody remained trapped.”

  tags: climate change, wind, rain, flooding, scotland, wales, climate camp, greenmonktv

• Spanish winemaker Torres warms to environmentalism | Business | guardian.co.uk

  “Southern Britain may not be the only place in the world where risk-loving vintners can take a chance on global warming. Climate change is already changing habits at vineyards in southern Europe, forcing some producers, such as Spain’s Torres, to buy land in the Pyrenees – “just in case”, says the company’s chairman, Miguel Torres.”

  tags: climate change, wine, torres, pyrenees, vineyards, greenmonktv

• India: Europe can do better – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  “The Times of India reports unnamed Indian climate negotiators to be little impressed by the outcome of last week’s EU summit in Brussels. The summit gave a figure of 100 billion euros as the overall need for international climate funding by 2020, but failed to state how much of this will be provided by the EU.”

  tags: climate funding, climate change, eu, india, copenhagen, copenhagen summit, greenmonktv

• Britons least concerned about climate change – Telegraph

  “The annual Climate Confidence Monitor found the number of people worrying about global warming worldwide has fallen by eight per cent to just over a third in the last year as the economic downturn kicked in.

  Just fifteen per cent of people in Britain worry about climate change and how the world responds to the problem, the lowest figure for any of the 12 countries surveyed. The figure is down from 26 per cent last year.”

  tags: climate confidence model, global warming, survey, greenmonktv

• A greener Hula Hoop? | Life and style | guardian.co.uk

  “United Biscuits, has joined the list of big food corporations that, after years of fruitless lobbying by green groups, is beginning to take notice of the palm oil problem.”

  tags: united biscuits, hula hoops, palm oil, deforestation, rspo, greenmonktv

• Greenpeace en la Sagrada Familia, Barcelona « El Blog de Greenpeace

  GreenPeace agitating for climate change action on the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona as leaders meet in Barcelona to discuss climate change.

  tags: greenpeace, climate change, barcelona, sagrada familia, greenmonktv

• Leaking oil rig catches fire off Australia’s coast – World environment- msnbc.com

  “A massive fire erupted on an oil rig that has been leaking into the Timor Sea and Australia’s government on Monday promised an investigation, the latest drama in a 10-week saga to plug the hole.

  Rig operator PTTEP Australasia said no one was injured and nonessential workers were evacuated after the fire broke out on the West Atlas rig and Montara wellhead platform on Sunday.

  The blaze started when workers began pumping heavy mud into a leaking well casing. An estimated 400 barrels of oil a day have escaped from the hole since Aug. 21.”

  tags: oil, fire, pttep australasia, australia, pollution, oil slick, oil rig, greenmonktv

• European satellite launched to explore climate change – Telegraph

  “The European Space Agency (ESA) said the £282m device was put into space in the early hours of Monday morning to gauge the impact of climate change on the movement of water across land, air and sea.

  It was lifted into space on a Russian Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.

  As the first space-based measure of the water in Earth’s soil and the saltiness of its oceans, scientists hope SMOS will be able to fill important gaps in our knowledge about the planet’s vital water cycle. “

  tags: esa, satellite, water, salinity, smos, water cycle, greenmonktv

• World leaders accused of myopia over climate change deal | Environment | The Guardian

  “The head of the international group leading the fight against climate change has accused countries of pushing science aside in favour of self-serving “political myopia” ahead of the vital Copenhagen summit.”

  tags: rajendra Pachauri, ipcc, copenhagen summit, climate change, greenmonktv

• 65% of global population demand governments commit to global deal

  “Nearly two thirds (65 per cent) of people across the globe believe a new international deal to cut emissions is ‘very important’, according to the 2009 annual Climate Confidence Monitor research released today. “

  tags: the climate group, climate confidence monitor, climate change, greenmonktv

• An open letter to Steve Levitt

  An open letter to Steve Levitt re the book Super Freakonomics – this is the best debunking of SuperFreakonomics yet.

  Done with logic, a little maths and humour/humility.

  tags: superfreakonomics, realclimate, steve levitt, greenmonktv

• Green Inc. Column – Tempers Flare Over Chinese Involvement in Wind Farm Planned for Texas – NYTimes.com

  “News last week of the first major influx of Chinese capital and wind turbine manufacturing expertise into the renewable energy market in the United States — a 600-megawatt wind farm planned for the plains of west Texas — had many readers of the Green Inc. blog in a state of agitation.”

  tags: greenmonktv, china, Wind farm, texas, stimulus, iberdrola

• Environmental Protection Agency Ireland

  IBM and the Irish EPA have put together a site to show the water quality of lakes and beaches in Ireland

  tags: ireland, ibm, epa, water quality, greenmonktv

• Centrica invests £725m in windfarm – Low Carbon Economy

  “Centrica is to invest up to £725 million into developing an offshore windfarm with 270MW of capacity.
  “

  tags: centrica, wind, offshore wind farm, greenmonktv

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• US coal stands in way of Copenhagen | Jeffrey Sachs | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

  “It’s not India and China that threaten the success of a new climate change treaty, but senators of coal-producing US states”

  tags: us, coal, climate change bill, us senate, coal states, greenmonktv

• Spanish wetland facing destruction as farming starves it of water | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  “The EU has begun an investigation into a unique Spanish wetland park that is being devastated by underground fires.

  Local officials have admitted that mismanaged water resources at the Tablas de Daimiel national park may never recover. “We are on the point of losing the Tablas de Daimiel,” said Josep Puxeu, Spain’s secretary for state for water.”

  tags: Tablas de Daimiel, water, spain, national park, eu, eu investigation, greenmonktv

• Oil spill ‘massive’ risk to Australian animals – Yahoo! News

  “A massive oil and gas leak off Australia’s northwest coast was killing seabirds and threatening thousands of marine animals, conservationists warned Friday.

  Oil company PTTEP Australasia is preparing to make a fourth attempt at plugging the leaking Montara wellhead, which has been spewing oil, gas and condensate into the Timor Sea since August 21.

  The spill is reportedly Australia’s worst since offshore drilling began more than 40 years ago.”

  tags: oil, oil spill, australia, pttep australasia, seabirds, marine animals, montara wellhead, pollution, greenmonktv

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• Creative Review’s incredible dissolving bag

  “Newsstand copies of the November issue of CR come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water.”

  tags: harmless dissolve, biodegradable, packaging, greenmonktv

• BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Arctic to be ‘ice-free in summer’

  “The Arctic Ocean could be largely ice-free and open to shipping during the summer in as little as ten years’ time, a top polar specialist has said.

  “It’s like man is taking the lid off the northern part of the planet,” said Professor Peter Wadhams, from the University of Cambridge.

  Professor Wadhams has been studying the Arctic ice since the 1960s.

  He was speaking in central London at the launch of the findings of the Catlin Arctic Survey. “

  tags: arctic, polar ice, ice melt, catlin arctic survey, climate change, greenmonktv

• ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO SECURES SETTLEMENT WITH PLASTIC SURGERY FRANCHISE THAT FLOODED INTERNET WITH FALSE POSITIVE REVIEWS

  “ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO SECURES SETTLEMENT WITH PLASTIC SURGERY FRANCHISE THAT FLOODED INTERNET WITH FALSE POSITIVE REVIEWS “

  tags: cuomo, astroturfing, nyc, attorney general, lifestyle lift, greenmonktv

• EU agreement to curb CO2 emissions from planes and ships – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  “European environment ministers have agreed to cut global emissions by 10 percent from planes and 20 percent from ships. “

  tags: eu, transportation, greenhouse gas emissions, co2 emissions, planes, ships, copenhagen, greenmonktv, green-numbers

• Obama and Hu agree on a successful climate conference – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  “US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao commit themselves to strive for a wide consensus and a successful Copenhagen climate change conference. “

  tags: obama, copenhagen, china, hu jintao, greenmonktv

• Flickr: The The world’s worst cycle lanes Pool

  The The world’s worst cycle lanes Pool – some absolute gems in this photo set.

  tags: cycling, cyclists, cycle lane, greenmonktv

• Red Fish – list of endangered fish

  A listing of fish species which are commercially fished despite being in danger of stock collapse

  tags: fish, stock collapse, over-fishing, overfishing, greenmonktv

• Switchboard, from NRDC :: Pete Altman’s Blog :: Climate Denier Numero Uno to the Rescue of the US Chamber!

  “You know the US Chamber of Coal (sorry, “Commerce”) must be getting desperate for good-will ambassadors when it has to deploy Don “I’ll Shoot You” Blankenship to defend its extremist rhetoric on climate change and policy.”

  tags: us chamber of commerce, chamber of commerce, Don Blankenship, massey energy, greenmonktv

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• Coauthor of SuperFreakonomics apologizes to me « Climate Progress

  More evidence, as if more were needed that Levitt & Dubner’s new book SuperFreakonomics is error-filled twaddle.

  Shame really, I thought Freakonomics was a good book. Now I wonder just how accurate that was too!

  tags: levitt, dubner, freakonomics, superfreakonomics, greenmonktv

• Australia Motorists Ready For Electric Cars, TMR Poll Shows | The Motor Report: Auto News And Reviews

  “THE SURPRISING RESULTS of a TMR poll show that the impending release of electric cars into the Australian market may not meet the buyer resistance some may be expecting.”

  tags: electric cars, electric vehicle, ev, tmr, survey, australia, better place, greenmonktv

• CUSTOMER WIN: San Diego Gas & Electric’s ‘Smart and Secure’ Electrical Grid to be Powered by BMC Software – BMC Software

  “As the country’s thirst for renewable energy grows, leading public utilities like San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) are developing smart grids that seamlessly combine alternative energy with current energy infrastructure systems.

  SDG&E and BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) are working together as part of a coalition of more than 25 companies to convert the utility’s energy system into a digital smart grid that manages alternative energy sources such as solar and wind and accommodates the rapid adoption of electric vehicles.”

  tags: smart grid, sdg&e, renewable energy, bmc software, greenmonktv

• Forest’s death brings higher temps, researchers suspect — The Daily Climate

  “Forests of dead beetle-kill could be speeding regional climate change, increasing temperatures and decreasing rainfalls across the American West.”

  tags: beetle, lodgepole pine, climate change, greenmonktv

• Photo of the Day: “High Fiving Whale” | Manolith

  “Whales are the hippest marine mammals ever! “

  tags: whale, whales, humpback whale, high five, greenmonktv

• Red kite numbers hit record high

  “Numbers of a bird of prey hunted to extinction in Scotland by the Victorians are at their highest in 150 years, RSPB Scotland has said.”

  tags: red kite, re-introduction, greenmonktv, scotland

• Video: Killing fields – the true cost of Europe’s cheap meat | FabianPattberg.com

  “This is an old topic but we need some action to show that the price South American farmers are paying for our cheap meat we have here in Europe is horrendous. I guess we all know that this way of producing soya simply to feed our animals here in Europe is just not sustainable. But this is easily forgotten unfortunately.”

  tags: cheap meat, south american farmers, soya, killing fields, monsanto, roundup, glyphosate, greenmonktv

• Indian environment minister is put in his place – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  “After internal disagreements, the Indian prime minister officially denounces his environment minister.”

  tags: india, cop15, copenhagen, climate negotiations, greenmonktv

• Take Action – Campaigns – The Making of a Climate Activist – The Ecologist

  “In a heart-racing extract from her new book, Tamsin Omond gives a first-hand account of a diverse, but peaceful group of Climate Camp protesters bonding together when confronted by aggressive riot police”

  tags: climate camp, climate activists, uk police, greenmonktv

• News Analysis – Buzz factory: how agri-chemical companies are breeding and killing bees – The Ecologist

  “Agri-chemical companies like Syngenta don’t just make the chemicals that have been blamed for the decline in bees; they also breed the bees that are being used as a replacement for wild pollinators”

  tags: bee, bees, syngenta, neonicotinoids, bumblebee, pollination, greenmonktv

• The eco activists who are camping against climate change – CNN.com

  “There was no mistaking the target: the eight huge cooling towers at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, sending plumes of steam high into the watery blue sky of the English Midlands.

  Instead the question in the minds of an estimated 1,000 protestors gathered in the surrounding woods and scrubland was how could they get in and shut it down”

  tags: Climate Action, climate activists, climate change, swoop, greenmonktv

• Our nuclear tragedy | Jonathon Porritt | Comment is free | The Guardian

  “The idea that a few new reactors can solve climate change is attractive – and completely unrealistic”

  tags: nuclear, renewables, renewable power, nuclear power, greenmonktv

• Climate Change – What We Do: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation

  “Despite the fact that deforestation is the second leading contributor of carbon emissions worldwide after the burning of fossil fuels, countries currently have few incentives for preserving their forests. However, deforestation is finally gaining attention in international discussions on climate change”

  tags: deforestation, carbon emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, climate change, greenmonktv

• China’s long-range electric car from Byd

  “BYD says that its new E6 electric car due out before the end of the year will do 250 miles (400km) on a single charge.

  This is a very big number. The Tesla electric sports car does almost as much, but has little room for anything else in the car but the battery.

  The E6 is roomy with space for five passengers and a good-sized boot. The battery tucks under the back seat. “

  tags: byd, electric car, ev, e6, greenmonktv

• Smart Phone: Will Clean Energy Be Apple’s Killer App? – Environmental Capital – WSJ

  “Apple rode the iPhone to record-breaking third-quarter profits at the tail end of a recession. Imagine what could happen if the “smart energy” revolution takes off in earnest and smart phones are on board.”

  tags: apple, iphone, smart energy, smart home, home area network, greenmonktv

• Environmentally friendly lighting for bike lane

  “Cyclists in a rural part of eastern Funen are set to become even more environmentally conscious

  In a first for Denmark, a bike lane is going to be lit up by light-emitting diodes (LEDs), reports trade publication Trafik & Veje (Traffic and Roads).
  “

  tags: cycling, led lighting, mercury lamps, energy efficiency, greenmonktv

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• Eco Architecture: A-Cero Designs Sustainable Research Center For Spain – Ecofriend

  “Madrid-based architecture firm A-Cero has won a competition to design a research center for renewable energy sources in Murcia, Spain with a plan that harnesses renewable energy to the maximum. The building designed by A-Cero will blur the gap between architecture and free space and incorporate several energy generating and saving systems.”

  tags: eco architecture, green buildings, a-cero, renewable energy, greenmonktv

• Chinese Town’s Response to Poisonous Lead Factory: Move the Town : TreeHugger

  “Increasingly, concern over environmental health in cities and towns across China has led to angry public protests that have halted construction on or closed a number of factories. But after outrage over lead poisoning in a town in central China, authorities aren’t turning off the smelters at fault. They’re moving the whole town. “

  tags: china, lead, poisoning, greenmonktv

• Nearly Half of US Consumers Would Choose a “Green” Handset – At the Right Price

  “Nearly half of US consumers would be willing to consider a “green” cell phone, but only if the price, features, and performance were equivalent to a conventionally constructed phone. Just 7% would be willing to pay a premium, reports a survey of 1,000 American adults carried out by ABI Research.”

  tags: mobile sustainability, greenmonktv, green handset, mobile phone

• The Yes Men Punk the Chamber | Mother Jones

  “The Chamber of Commerce stunned DC on Monday by calling a last-minute press conference to announce a dramatic about-face in its climate policy—it would not only stop opposing the Kerry-Boxer climate bill but would work with them to make it better. But the whole thing turned out to be a hoax mounted by the Yes Men, a notorious band of anti-corporate pranksters.”

  tags: us chamber of commerce, chamber of commerce, yes men, prank, greenmonktv

• Soccer teams will leave record carbon footprint

  “Emissions of greenhouse gases from next year’s FIFA World Cup in South Africa are expected to be 10 times those of the 2006 tournament in Germany”

  tags: soccer, fifa, FIFA World Cup, carbon footprint, greenhouse gas emissions, greenmonktv

• Technology Review: Next Stop: Ultracapacitor Buses

  “Municipal transit agencies have tried to reduce the carbon footprint of their bus fleets using a range of options over the years, from biofuels and hydrogen to batteries and hybrid-electric diesel. Now a Chinese company and its U.S. partner say that ultracapacitors could offer the greenest and most economical way of powering inner-city buses.”

  tags: ultracapacitors, municipal transit, biofuels, lithium ion, greenmonktv

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• Is the Bluefin Tuna an Endangered Species?: Scientific American

  “The United Nations will consider a ban on international trade of the prized fish due to plummeting numbers in the Atlantic and Mediterranean”

  tags: bluefin, tuna, bluefin tuna, overfishing, greenmonktv

• Climate Talks: India Appears to Soften Stance on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions – Environmental Capital – WSJ

  “India may be softening its stance on the issue of carbon emission cuts, a move that could shake up the global dynamics ahead of the Copenhagen climate change summit in December.”

  tags: india, copenhagen, climate change, carbon emissions, emissions cuts, greenmonktv

• We will be billions of dollars poorer when coral dies – environment – 19 October 2009 – New Scientist

  “The world’s coral reefs save us $172 billion every year, but they’re on the brink of collapse (PDF) because of political inertia, an ecological economist has told the global Diversitas biodiversity conference in Cape Town, South Africa.”

  tags: coral reefs, reforestation, deforestation, greenmonktv

• Not all EnergyStar goods measure up, report finds | Green Tech – CNET News

  An internal audit by the Energy Department concluded that some EnergyStar products are not meeting the requirements to gain the energy-efficiency label

  tags: us doe, doe, energy star, energystar, energy-efficiency label, greenmonktv

• Software Enabled Earth : Microsoft Launches Software Architecture for Smart Grid Development

  “Microsoft announced it has developed a software reference architecture to help the Utility industry take a significant step in smart grid development. Called Microsoft Smart Energy Reference Architecture (SERA), this reference architecture addresses technology integration throughout the full scope of the smart energy ecosystem.”

  tags: sera, smart grid, Smart Energy Reference Architecture, greenmonktv

• US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran – Telegraph

  “America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme.”

  tags: terror, america, cia, iran, greenmonktv

• Video: Maldives president holds underwater cabinet meeting | Environment | guardian.co.uk

  “Cabinet sign SOS memo to raise awareness of threat of rising sea levels to their country”

  tags: maldives, cabinet, underwater, sea level rise, greenmonktv

• Message from the Gyre

  “These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

  To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. “

  tags: midway atoll, albatross, plastic, gyre, pollution, greenmonktv

• Survival International – The movement for tribal peoples

  “The Dongria Kondh are one of India’s most remote tribes. They live in Orissa state’s Niyamgiri hills and worship a mountain as a God.

  As Vedanta Resources, a London-based mining company prepares to destroy their forests and sacred mountain to build a vast open-cast mine, Survival’s new film asks…

  What will one tribe do to save everything they know?”

  tags: vedanta, dongria kondh, orissa, joanna Lumley, greenmonktv

• Message in the Waves | No More Plastic Bags Video – BBC Hawaii |

  Message in the Waves | No More Plastic Bags Video

  tags: plastic, gyre, hawaii, greenmonktv

• Gordon Brown to world leaders: Come to Copenhagen – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  “The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urges world leaders to attend the UN climate conference i Copenhagen to reach agreement and avoid a “catastrophic” future of killer heatwaves, floods and droughts. He sends his message at the Major Economies Forum in London today, and warns that there is no “plan B” to a deal in Copenhagen.”

  tags: gordon brown, copenhagen, climate change, greenmonktv

• Software Enabled Earth : Seattle City Light Begins Offering its Customers Consumption Data for use with Microsoft Hohm

  “Today Seattle City Light became the first utility to announce that it is offering customers the ability to link their electricity consumption data with Microsoft Hohm, an online application that tracks energy use and provides personalized energy conservation recommendations. “

  tags: seattle, microsoft hohm, hohm, consumption, greenmonktv

• ‘GUILTY’: UK government blasts Vedanta in unprecedented attack – Survival International

  UK government blasts Vedanta in unprecedented attack, demands a ‘change in the company’s behaviour’ http://j.mp/18UnBZ

  tags: vedanta, dongria kondh, orissa, mining, greenmonktv

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• The Biggest Loser: Incredible, shrinking Chamber of Commerce goes from 3 million members to just 300,000 in one day!

  Incredible, shrinking US Chamber of Commerce goes from 3 million members to just 300,000 in one day! « Climate Progress

  tags: chamber of commerce, greenmonktv

• Superfreakonomics on climate, part 1 – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com

  “OK, I’m working my way through the climate chapter — and the first five pages, by themselves, are enough to discredit the whole thing. Why? Because they grossly misrepresent other peoples’ research, in both climate science and economics.”

  tags: superfreakonomics, greenmonktv, freakonomics, economics, climate change, global cooling

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• How UK oil company Trafigura tried to cover up African pollution disaster | World news | guardian.co.uk

  “The British oil trader Trafigura has offered to pay out in a historic damages claim from 31,000 Africans injured by the dumping of toxic waste in one of the worst pollution disasters in recent history, the Guardian can reveal.

  The compensation deal for the victims of toxic oil waste dumping in west Africa – likely to be confirmed imminently – means the full extent of attempts to cover up what really happened can be spelled out for the first time.”

  tags: trafigura, damages, slops, oil, pollution, ivory coast, greenmonktv

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• BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Dong withdraws from energy deal

  “Plans to build a coal-fired power station in Ayrshire could still go ahead despite a decision by one of the main backers to pull out.

  Danish energy firm Dong said it would now act as a design partner for the station at Hunterston, next to British Energy’s nuclear plant. “

  tags: dong, coal, dirty coal, ayrshire, greenmonktv

• London’s new drinking fountains a challenge to bottled water industry | Environment | The Observer

  “London may soon follow in the footsteps of Bundanoon, the Australian town that last week banned bottled water and set up drinking fountains for thirsty locals.

  The capital’s first water stations will be set up this month in a move that could have serious repercussions for the £1.5bn-a-year bottled water industry, with companies finding it increasingly difficult to justify their carbon footprint as the quality of tap water improves.”

  tags: london, water, hydrachill, greenmonktv

• ‘Scary’ climate message from past

  “A new historical record of carbon dioxide levels suggests current political targets on climate may be “playing with fire”, scientists say.

  Researchers used ocean sediments to plot CO2 levels back 20 million years.

  Levels similar to those now commonly regarded as adequate to tackle climate change were associated with sea levels 25-40m (80-130 ft) higher than today. “

  tags: climate change, ocean sediments, 450ppm, 350ppm, greenmonktv

• WWF – Saving forests five times better than carbon capture for climate action: WWF Sweden

  “WWF Sweden is urging its government – holding the current EU Presidency – to get behind an effective international agreement on halting forest loss as a key and highly cost effective measure on climate change.

  “Sweden should follow the examples set by its northern neighbors in developing systems to halt deforestation,” said WWF CEO General Lasse Gustavsson.. “One Swedish krona to stem deforestation results in the same emissions reductions as five kronor for the controversial carbon capture and storage technique,” “

  tags: redd, deforestation, wwf, wwf sweden, climate change, greenmonktv

• EU: Failure in climate talks would embarrass Obama – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  “It would be “more than an embarrassment” to US President Barack Obama if the United States should fail to lead international climate negotiations to completion at a UN conference in Copenhagen in December, a senior European climate negotiator says”

  tags: obama, copenhagen, climate negotiations, greenmonktv

• Piano stairs – Rolighetsteorin.se – The fun theory

  Here is one to cheer you up – fun can motivate people to do the right thing – who knew?

  tags: piano, stairs, fun, greenmonktv

• President Obama Declares October National Energy Awareness Month

  “A more prosperous future for the US’s economy means making investments in energy efficiency and clean energy today. Well-funded energy research and development will not only help protect our environment and support our communities, but it will also address concerns of global competitiveness and national security.

  Innovation in energy technology will decrease oil use, strengthen the economy, and reduce the dangerous pollution that causes climate change. “

  tags: obama, National Energy Awareness Month, october, greenmonktv

• RealClimate – Climate science from Climate scientists

  A great blog on climate science from actual climate scientists!!!

  tags: climate, realclimate, climate change, climate blog, greenmonktv

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• Britain must cut more to meet CO2 budgets – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  “In order to meet the British commitments to cut carbon dioxide emissions, ”a step change in the pace of reduction is needed”, a government advisory group says in a new report”

  From 2003 to 2007, British CO2 reductions averaged 0.6 percent a year. This needs to increase to two to three percent a year to meet the government’s carbon budgets, the British Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says in a new report Monday.

  tags: carbon dioxide, Emission, britain, Committee on Climate Change, greenmonktv

• EDF nuclear waste stored in open air in Russia: report | Green Business | Reuters

  “Waste from French power stations was being deposited in the open air in Russia, French newspaper Liberation said on Monday.

  The paper said 13 percent of French radioactive waste produced by power group EDF could be found in the open air in a town in Siberia to which access is forbidden. The paper said it based its information on an investigation due to be broadcast on TV channel Arte on Tuesday.”

  tags: edf, nuclear power, nuclear waste, siberia, greenmonktv

• UK Greenpeace protesters scale roof of parliament | Green Business | Reuters

  “Dozens of climate-change protesters climbed on to the roof of the Houses of Parliament on Sunday and unveiled banners, raising security concerns the day before legislators return from their summer break.”

  tags: greenpeace, climate activists, houses of parliament, greenmonktv

• New demands from the US – COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009

  “A US demand that developing countries should set their entire emissions reducing actions under international scrutiny has been rejected as “non-negotiable” by the developing countries in Bangkok. “

  tags: emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, co2, us, developing nations, greenmonktv

• Smart Grid: The Coming Smart Grid Data Surge

  “the advancements of the Smart Grid are founded in information. Data is used to inform consumption, to make rates more dynamic, and to enable the next-generation power prosumer. In reading a recent piece on potentially mandated Smart Metering in the UK, the Telegraph raises the issue of data handling relative to today’s data management. In short strokes, 44 million homes were typically measured twice a year, making for 88 million entries for data. In the new system, every home is measured twice a day, meaning that those 88 million entries have now become over 32 billion.”

  tags: smart grid, data, data privacy, smart metering, greenmonktv

• Smart Grid: The Smart Grid and Consumers: Unanswered Questions

  In addition to the potential “prize” the Smart Grid might offer them, other consumer concerns must be addressed to gain their trust and comfort with the dramatic change the Smart Grid represents

  tags: smart grid, demand response, greenmonktv, consumer

• Smart Grid: Google and Partner Offer Home Energy Management Without Smart Meters

  “Google and Energy Inc. have partnered to provide a home power-measuring device that works with Google’s energy management software to give homeowners detailed information about their power consumption that can help them monitor and reduce energy consumption. “

  tags: smart grid, google, powermeter, ted 5000, greenmonktv

• Smart Grid Projects Get Ready to Roll in the U.S., UAE · Environmental Leader · Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability Executives

  “Cisco, together with utility, technology and local government partners, are developing some of the nation’s first projects to create a smarter electric grid. General Electric is also testing how smart appliances can help lower power demand in a pilot program at Masdar City in Abu Dhabi.”

  tags: cisco, ge, smart grid, san jose, masdar city, greenmonktv

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